NEET, a single common entrance test for medical courses including MBBS, BDS and PG courses, will be applicable to all medical colleges, including government and private.
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Refusing to hear the Centre’s plea, the court said it will not pass any further order on NEET.
In cancellation to the common national exam of 2013, the judgment had recalled the courts own order. “There is no impediment in way of implementing NEET after the Constitution bench verdict and the Centre should be directed to enforce the order in association with MCI and CBSE”, Advocate Amit Kumar, appearing for the petitioner NGO Sankalp Charitable Trust, told the bench. The students will need to wait up before they know what entrance test to take this year for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, ANI reported. Prayer was also made to put a stay on the exam that was to be held by CBSE on 1 May.
Those aspiring students who have not applied for the AIPMT this time, would be given another chance to appear in the Phase II of NEET, which would be held on 24 July 2016.
Admissions will be completed by September 30.
He said Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) had been asked to continue with its routine annual Common Entrance Test (CET).
The order implied that all government colleges, deemed universities and private medical colleges would be covered under NEET and those examinations which have already taken place or slated to be conducted separately stand scrapped.
According to the schedule, the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) scheduled for May 1 will be treated as first round of the NEET. Moreover, a good number of students appear for admissions both in the medical and engineering colleges and they can do so easily as Physics and Chemistry papers are normally held on one day, while the Mathematics and Biology papers on the second day.
With the order, the exams held in states including Kerala have become invalid.
The constitution bench also set up a three-member committee that will oversee the counselling and admission under the aegis of Medical Council of India till a law is enacted by parliament empowering medical regulatory body to conduct counselling and admissions.
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This common exam will now replace the multiple exams conducted by various institutions and states across the country.
